English
invocate
Invocate comes from Latin invocātus ‘invoked’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ- ‘to speak, to sound out’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*wekʷ-‘to speak, to sound out’next step skipped: Latin invocō
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEinvocātus‘invoked’
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1593invocate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*wekʷ-‘to speak, to sound out’next step skipped: Latin invocō
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEinvocātus‘invoked’
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1593invocate
Earliest quotation: c. 1593, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]: “Poore key-cold Figure of a holy King, Pale Aſhes…”
first attested First attested in 1530 (as stated in the etymology)
The story
First attested in 1530; borrowed from Latin invocātus, perfect passive participle of invocō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ- ‘to speak, to sound out’
voice, epic, invite, invitation, vocal, vie, wight, whit, vox, vouch, invoke, vociferous, epos, 34 more
Today it means
verb To implore or invoke.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ- / invocate